Application Mode of Low-Carbon Economy for “Green Residence”

Global energy shortages and climate change promote low-carbon economy become an important research focus. The application mode of low-carbon economy in the construction of new residential area has important theoretical and practical value for the promotion of sustainable development in resource-based society. In this paper, a “Green residence” mode is discussed by using the low-carbon technology of heat preservation and the renew resources application. The “Green residence” integrates the ecological energy resources such as solar energy system, biomass energy, gray-water system and building materials. The mode focuses on the environmental protection and low-carbon emission, and tries to provide some guide for the construction of new residential area.

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Study of Low-Carbon Economy and Low-Carbon Building Materials

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.160-162.1067 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 160-162 ◽

pp. 1067-1071

Author(s):

Bao Zhu Sheng ◽

Xiao Juan Chen

Keyword(s):

Building Material ◽

Structural Adjustment ◽

Building Materials ◽

Economic Transition ◽

Material Industry ◽

Low Carbon ◽

Building Material Industry ◽

Great Opportunity ◽

Low Carbon Economy ◽

Carbon Economy

Building material industry which belongs to High-carbon is facing severe challenges and great opportunity when coping with global climatic change. Low-carbon is an inevitable trend that economy grows. Low-carbon economy is the backbone for economic transition and also the right way for people move towards future .By means of structural adjustment and technology innovation building material industry is destined to achieve full vitality in the transition to the low-carbon economy.

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The role of Rare Earth Elements in the deployment of wind energy in Colombia

Boletín Geológico ◽

10.32685/0120-1425/bol.geol.48.2.2021.552 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 48 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Carlos Andrés Gallego

Keyword(s):

Rare Earth ◽

Rare Earth Elements ◽

Fossil Fuels ◽

Energy System ◽

Low Carbon ◽

Low Carbon Economy ◽

Energy Technologies ◽

The Government ◽

Critical Minerals ◽

Carbon Economy

The deployment of renewable energy technologies will play a crucial role in the global transition to a low-carbon economy and ultimately in the fight against global warming. However, this transition could face important problems because most of those technologies rely on the steady supply of critical minerals. Colombia, thanks to its hydrological resources, has relied on the hydropower for electricity generation. However, the government has implemented measures to back-up the energy system in draught periods and, consequently, fossil fuels-based plants have increased the market share and with these, CO2 emissions. This study assesses the mineral demand in Colombia in the period 2020-2050 for the rare earth elements embedded in the deployment of wind power technologies in four different climate policy scenarios in order to establish whether they could face geological bottlenecks that could ultimately hamper the transition to a low-carbon economy. The Gigawatts (GW) of future capacity additions in the energy system are converted into tons of metal using published metal intensities of use and assumptions of Colombia’s technological pathway. Then, the cumulated mineral demand is compared against current mining production rates and geological reserves to establish geological bottlenecks. The results show that the reserves will not pose any threat to its transition. However, when compared to current mining rates, the mineral demand in 2050 could pose a problem for the supply of minerals. Finally, this study gives some policy recommendations that could be used to mitigate these issues, such as substitution, improved circular economy and sound technological choices.

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Green Container Building’s New Design Concept

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.193-194.26 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 193-194 ◽

pp. 26-29 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Xue Ying Wang ◽

Ya Jun Wu ◽

Dong Xu

Keyword(s):

Carbon Emissions ◽

Building Materials ◽

Design Concept ◽

Low Carbon ◽

Low Carbon Economy ◽

The World ◽

Carbon Economy

The container building is emerging products on the container’s market. Container architecture reflects the low carbon building the "energy" and "low carbon" characteristics, it is sustainable. In the world, we hope a low carbon economy development, on this way, the design of the building with container transformation is a new design in the exploration of how to reduce building materials’ carbon emissions in the process. It emphasizes the construction of green concept container.

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